Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown